The first person to call Ronald to inform him of the accident was his agent Richard, "Turn on the TV, ABC entertainment news, something happened."
"Actor Vic Morrow died accidentally while filming a movie on an Indian farm in California. A spokesperson for Warner Bros. Pictures confirmed the accident to our reporter. The local police said they are investigating the accident.
Our reporter has not contacted the crew yet, and any updates will be broadcast in subtitle form. "
Ronald turned on the TV as instructed and tuned to ABC Los Angeles. The news host was dialing a news item.
"Isn't Vic Morrow the father of Jennifer Jason Leigh?" Ronald remembered this drunken man who broke into the scene and tried to stop his daughter from filming an explicit scene.
"Yes, I will call you as soon as I hear the news."
"Okay, I'll contact the producer and ask about the situation."
Ronald put down the phone and was a little worried. Will Jennifer Jason Leigh's participation in the "fast-paced" marketing event be affected by this incident?
Ronald quickly dialed the phone number of producer Lin Sen, "Have you heard about it?"
When Lin Sen answered the phone, like Ronald, he started with "Have you heard?"
"We need to discuss whether Jennifer is no longer suitable to participate in marketing activities?" Lin Sen has more experience in film distribution than Ronald.
"Why?"
"Jennifer Jason Leigh is a second-generation star. This kind of person is generally admired by film critics and the media. She has many good things to say. But she also attracts many entertainment reporters to pursue her.
And she is still Jewish. Now that her father Vic Morrow is dead, those revealing scenes of her in the movie are likely to cause discomfort to the senior Jewish people at Universal. We should keep a low profile and try not to let her become the focus of the media. "
"Okay, Mr. Linsen, I think so too. Should we go and see Jennifer, to pay our respects, and to listen to her and her mother's opinions?"
"You are very thoughtful. I will pick you up tomorrow and go with you."
The next day, they arrived at Jennifer's mother's home, where her mother, Barbara Turner, was staying with Jennifer and her sister.
"There is no way Jennifer can continue to participate in the 'fast-paced' marketing campaign. Losing her father in this way is a huge blow to any child, let alone she has just turned 20."
Barbara Turner, mother of Jennifer Jason Leigh and the heroine of "Fast Richmond High," told Ronald and producer Lin Sen who came to visit.
"Ms. Turner, Barbara, we are here to express our condolences and have no intention of letting Jennifer continue her marketing tour." Ronald quickly told Barbara the purpose of his visit.
Although Vic Morrow abandoned their mother and daughter at a young age, he died in such a tragic way. No matter what, he had to come to mourn and support Jennifer.
Last night, Ronald and Lin Sen heard some news through their respective channels. Vic Morrow's unexpected death sounds an awful lot like a horror movie story.
Warner Bros. is also pursuing director Spielberg, inviting him to direct a feature film. Spielberg chose the movie version of CBS's evergreen horror TV series "Twilight Zone."
Spielberg had a very busy directorial schedule and did not have time to fully direct the film version of this horror film. So he asked three friends in the industry to co-direct, each of whom directed part of the plot, and then combined four unrelated stories into one movie.
One of them was one of Ronald's first directors, Joe Dante. At that time, he helped his good friend Alan Aikush direct his first film in "Rock and Roll High School". Without him, Ronald would not have been able to join the Directors Guild.
The other was horror and comedy director John Landis, whom Universal had sent to watch "Fast-paced Richmond High."
Finally, there’s Australian director George Miller.
It should be said that this lineup is still very strong. Joe Dante's "Breaking Bad" directed after leaving Roger Corman was very good at the box office, and his directorial ability also attracted the attention of Spielberg, who was preparing to ask him to make films for his Amblin Company.
George Miller has swept the Hollywood box office with two low-cost wasteland science fiction films "Mad Max" and its sequel, and studios are scrambling to attract him.
John Landis is as popular a director as Spielberg, and is considered the second most important among the four directors after Spielberg. So it was decided that he would shoot the opening part, and Spielberg, who was busy waiting for the release of Alien, would shoot the second part.
They also served as producers of the film.
The accident occurs in the opening quarter of the episode directed by John Landis.
Vic Morrow was decapitated by a helicopter propeller while filming a nighttime escape scene. Two child extras who were filming with him also died together.
The TV series "The Twilight Zone" is a horror fantasy TV series. This accident is also very similar to a horror story in a TV series, which is incredible.
The content of the first part is about a white man played by Vic Morrow who was robbed of his promotion opportunity by his Jewish colleagues. He then began to scold Jews, Asians, and blacks, believing that these minorities had taken away his opportunities.
Suddenly he was transported to a time and space where racial discrimination was the most severe in history.
For example, during World War II, the Vichy Jews were shot by the Gestapo because they could not speak English. He then continues to travel to Alabama in the 1950s, becoming a black man and facing the hanging of the Ku Klux Klan.
After finally escaping, he traveled back to the Vietnam War battlefield in the 1960s. He took two Vietnamese children to escape machine gun fire from a US military helicopter.
The scene where the accident occurred was the scene where Vic Morrow and his two children escaped from the UH-1 helicopter of the US Army.
For some unknown reason, a helicopter piloted by a real Vietnam War veteran lost control and crashed. The propeller hit the spot where Vic Morrow and his two children were struggling to escape. C. Morrow was beheaded.
Before he died, he knew there was no chance of survival, so he threw one child out with all his strength, and hid the other child under him, but he still could not withstand the sharp blade of the steel propeller. One of the two children was also killed by the propeller, and the other was crushed to death by the landing gear. .
Three actors, one young and two young, were killed on the spot.
"We wanted to meet Jennifer and express our condolences in person. And then we wanted to hear Jennifer's thoughts.
The crew will try their best to cooperate and prevent her from becoming the focus of the media as much as possible. At this point in time, the media will definitely take advantage of the 'fast-paced' release to ask her a lot of questions about her father. "
Lin Sen was more experienced in handling this kind of matter and made his request on the spot.
Barbara also woke up immediately. Maybe there was a reporter squatting outside the door now, preparing to interview the family.
"Thank you. You go and talk to Jennifer. I'll go out and see if there are any reporters. If not, you go through the back door."
"Thank you, Barbara." Ronald and Lin Sen entered the back room and saw Jennifer Jason Leigh sitting on the sofa in a daze.
"Jennifer? I'm Ronald, let's check on you, are you okay?"
Jennifer came back to her senses and saw Ronald and producer Lin Sen.
"Oh, thank you for coming to see me. I'm actually fine."
"Don't say that. Don't worry about the promotion of the movie. We know that you lost your father, and you must be feeling..."
"No, Ronald, Mr. Linson." Jennifer stood up and made way for the two of them to sit down on the sofa. She stood up and sat on the sofa on the other side.
"I'm not lying, I really have nothing to do. When Vic left my mother, I was only three years old, so I have no memory of what happened before. When filming 'Fast Tempo', Vic even came to me and wanted to I was asked to give up the heroine, but I refused.
Over the past ten years, Vic has been like a stranger to me. I have no impression of him. The few times he came to my house drunk and made a scene.
My sister, on the other hand, has memories of him at home when she was a child. She often told me that Vic was actually a good person, but he turned into a devil when he got drunk. "
"This?" They didn't expect Jennifer to look at her father like this. Ronald and Lin Sen were speechless for a moment.
"Don't worry, I won't delay my 'fast-paced' promotional schedule." Jennifer Jason Leigh said to Ronald and the others.
"Um, Jennifer. This is actually a purpose of our coming."
Ronald and Lin Sen looked at each other and asked her to postpone her promotional schedule.
"So Vic's accident deprived me of my promotional schedule?" Jennifer was a little annoyed. She won this role based on her own ability, and she worked very hard and sacrificed herself to film the revealing plot. Now Vic himself has nothing but Unexpectedly, but to deprive her of her power as a heroine?
"We know that you are a very dedicated girl. But the current situation is that your father's accident has become the biggest news in Hollywood. All kinds of tabloids, media, and photographers are all squatting, hoping to get information from you. Just a few words uttered in it.”
"Yes, Jennifer. Believe us, those reporters will exaggerate and distort anything you say dozens of times. They will do anything for sales. You'd better hire a public relations company as soon as possible to help you unify your speech to the outside world."
"Well, I didn't expect it to turn out like this." Jennifer was relatively calm. Vic Morrow didn't have a deep relationship with her, which allowed her to look at the whole thing from a more rational perspective.
Several people discussed it and decided not to let Jennifer go on out-of-town promotional trips for the time being. She would show up again at the premiere in Los Angeles. And it was arranged by the public relations company so that she would not be allowed to face the firepower of reporters and enter the movie theater directly after her debut.
Ronald and the others will also speak out against the other people on the crew who are running the schedule and not talk about Vic Morrow's matter.
"I still can't believe this is true." After making arrangements with Jennifer, Ronald covered his forehead with his hands and sighed, "How could such an outrageous thing happen?"
Jennifer also felt the same way, "I didn't know either. The cameras at the scene captured the entire incident, but because it was too bloody, Warner Bros. didn't let us see it for the time being.
We will find a lawyer to look at the situation together. The lawyer said that this may involve criminal liability and huge civil compensation. "
"criminal?"
"Yeah, I heard..." Jennifer lowered her voice and whispered to Ronald, "My mother didn't let me tell me, so don't tell others. I heard that the accident was caused by John Landis ordering the helicopter to fly too low. .”
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